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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






2. The organizational form of a literary work.






3. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






4. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.






5. The main character of a literary work.






6. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






7. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






8. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






9. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






10. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






11. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






12. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






13. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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14. A strong pause within a line.






15. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






16. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






17. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






18. A character struggles against some outside force.






19. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






20. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






21. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






22. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






23. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






24. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






25. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






26. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






27. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






28. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






29. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.






30. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






31. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






32. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






33. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






34. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






35. A three-line stanza.






36. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






37. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






38. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.






39. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






40. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






41. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






42. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






43. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






44. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






45. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






46. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






47. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






48. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






49. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






50. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.